Occupational Health Questionnaire - Help!

[DrCupcake]

Hey Guys!

I firmed my offer for Aberdeen today WOOT!

I sent of my Occupational Health forms and listed ALL my work experience and volunteering, both medical and non-medical, that I have ever undertaken!

I was wondering what they do with the information- will they contact the work experience people to ask for references or will they just ask about risk of exposure? Or do they just keep it as part of your record?

If they need to ask for references I want to be able to let the places I worked know myself first since not everyone knows I've applied for Medicine this year. I'm a bit worried because some of it was unofficial or abroad or the people who I worked with have left! lol I think I'm just so happy I got the place that now I don't want anything to go wrong!!!

Thanks for your help!

Cupcake

[Kensei]

Hey Cupcake,

Don't worry about it - if you had to give that information as part of the occupational health questionnaire (and you've obviously already completed the whole UCAS application procedure and got the place on the course) - it's unlikely they will contact your employers and the places you worked at, be that abroad or in the UK. They need that information to work out what's the risk of you being a carrier of an infective organism or of developing a disease as a result of exposure to some kind of pathologenetic stimulus at work (e.g. if you worked in a factory where silica dust was present).

I doubt that you'll have to find all your past employers and contact to inform them about this.

Congrats on getting an offer
Kensei

[Frank E]

Congratulations on your offer.
Personally I wiithhold employment details from the NHS (as a patient) and OH forms.

Don't look upon it as a screening process to keep you out of medical school. That is sadly the role of OH in industry.

In your medical career OH actually work for your benefit in health surveillance and exposure management. There probably isn't much they are interested in medically if you haven't been working long, dpending on where you were working abroad. If an NHS employee has picked up a serious infectious disease I think the NHS, as a public employer are pretty good at finding workarounds.

[DrCupcake]

Dear Kensei and Frank E,

Thank you both for your replies. They were immensly reassuring! I do wish though that, for my own piece of mind, I hadn't put EVERYTHING down! But a good lesson to learn for next time.

Everything going well I shall see you all in Aberdeen this Sept. Woohoo! (I will stop celebrating soon...maybe )

TC,

Cupcake